German Easter Traditions

Easter in Germany is celebrated like in the USA but the food specialties for this holiday are different. These specific food dishes also vary from region to region.

German Easter Traditions

Let’s start with typical German food specialties that are served during Easter.

– Easter lamb, a sweet cake shaped like  a lamb. – Find the Recipe Here – 

– Chervil Soup or “Kerbelsuppe” at “Gründonnerstag” (Thursday before Easter). – Find the Recipe Here – 

– “Pellkartoffeln” which are boiled potatoes with the skin and will be served with “Kräuterquark (quark that is mixed with herbs). Popular is the “Grüne Sosse” Frankfurt Style – Find the Recipe Here – 

– Good Friday Fish dish such as fresh trout “Müllerin Art” (the trout is rolled in flour and sauté in butter)

– Easter Saturday Kaiserschmarrn, or pancakes. – Find the Recipe Here – 

– Easter Sunday starts with a brunch that contains sweet braided bread, Lachsschinken (very tender smoked ham), and many colorful hard boiled eggs. Dinner would be lamb (braised or roast), or filled veal, followed by a dessert with strawberries like Strawberry-Rhubarb Bavaroise.
You would serve an Easter cake in the afternoon with tea or coffee like the one below – Find the Recipe Here –

German Easter is a Christian holiday and is the time to celebrate the beginning of spring. Before Christianity it was an event that was celebrated when the snow melted, and the end of the winter had come. In the year 325 the Christian church decided to create the Easter tradition on the first Sunday after the first full moon. Nowadays it is still a religious event, it includes gifts for the children, delicious food and the typical Easter walk, the “Osterspaziergang.”

Easter Decorations
A tradition is also an Easter tree (or decorated wells and wreaths) which you can find in many villages and cities of Germany in the center or the Marktplatz. We also make our own Easter tree with hand painted or decorated eggs on branches in a vase.

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